Sue Brodbeck – Oil Painting

Sue Brodbeck – Oil Painting
August 26 – September 27
Ray & Phyllis Jansma Gallery
at NCCA-Artsplace
13 E. Main St., Fremont, 231-924-4022.

Sue Brodbeck is a Michigan native. Her teaching career took her and her husband to the Detroit metro area. They now split their time between Dearborn and the Straights of Mackinac where they summer in a log cabin in the woods which acts as inspiration for many of Sue’s paintings. Sue states, “I enjoy travel throughout the United States where God’s natural world has always inspired me.” Love of waterfalls in the UP led Sue to many of the eastern states to enjoy many more waterfall locations.

Sue has been painting waterfalls for the past ten years. Most of her first paintings came from photographs she had taken. As a plein air artist, Sue spent the last 5 years returning to Michigan waterfalls to paint them as she experiences them on location. Sue has been a professional artist since retiring from teaching childhood art education in the early 2000’s. She studied art formally at Henry Ford Community College, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, and Sea and Sky classes with Edward Duff.

Sue’s work is influences by the post impressionist movement, using a palette knife to lay in her colors, expressing movement and dynamic color combinations to capture rocks, tress and water of her landscapes. This unique way of painting creates both bold color and rich texture in the surface of the oils.